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Letters
Letters
by Various
Opinion
They Have the Jobs
by Mark Bauerlein
Mid-Century Manhood
by Leonard Kriegel
America’s Fat Knight
by Julia Yost
Litvak at Large
Recalled to Life
by Shalom Carmy
Essays
Ibsen's Soulcraft
Considering one of modernity’s great dramatists
by Algis Valiunas
Opiate of the Theologians
by Michael McClymond
Notes on Summer Camp
by Elizabeth C. Corey
Rooted Cosmopolitan
Wrestling with the poetry of Adam Zagajewski
by Ian Marcus Corbin
Reviews
Against the Open Society
by Ryszard Legutko
Loyal to Death
by Richard Rex
Turning Inward
by Carl R. Trueman
Witch Ways
by Philip Jenkins
France Fractured
by Theodore Dalrymple
The Public Square
Failed Leaders
by R. R. Reno
Poetry
Joseph
by Mary-Patrice Woehling
Torso
by V. P. Loggins
Ordinary Time
by Daniel Rattelle
First Sunday
by Sally Thomas
The Edifice
by Mary Caroline Whims
An Icon of St. Margaret
by Marly Youmans
Elizabeth to Her Cousin
by James Matthew Wilson
The Back Page
God's Garbage People
by Matthew Schmitz
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